Cycles AMD OpenCL Test

_artin · June 10, 2014, 2:07am

Does it really work now with Radeon Cards older than HD7xxx.:eek:
I’ll gonna check this soon.

Dziro_12 · June 10, 2014, 5:00am

Feature Set: Experimental
Tiles: 64x540
[ATTACH=CONFIG]314184[/ATTACH]

s12a · June 10, 2014, 5:03am

That’s unexpected. Are you using GPU rendering or CPU?

Dziro_12 · June 10, 2014, 5:33am

OpenCL - GPU

Dziro_12 · June 10, 2014, 5:55am

CPU: AMD A6-3410MX APU with HD Graphics
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6520G
OS: Windows 7 64 Bit
Build: 2.70a f93bc76 (Daily build 2014-04-10)
Driver: AMD Catalyst 14.6
Feature Set: Experimental
Tiles: 64x540
Render: OpenCL - CPU
Time: 20:59.74
[ATTACH=CONFIG]314191[/ATTACH]

cusa123 · June 10, 2014, 11:33am

Amd 7870 - Blender 2.71 RC 1 / amd gpu does not work = (OpenCL build failed: console errors) Testing bmw
Bmw - 2.69. ( 128 x 540 )= 1:30.20sec
Bmw - blender-2.70-win64-918f6a4 ( 128 x 540 )= 1.58.35sec

Bmw - 2.69 (64 x 540 )=1:37.35sec
Bmw - blender-2.70-win64-918f6a4 (64 x 540)=2:02.24sec

Marc_Clint_Dion · August 7, 2014, 6:36am

Thanks mib2berlin: you are very helpful

Gueriero · August 12, 2014, 1:43pm

This is my result. I think it’s really cool for AMD gpu. Render time is just 40 seconds. I experimented with tile size. The fastest result shows 960540 = 40 sec (full image size). Lower result was 49 seconds on 128512.
blender 2.69
amd radeon r9 290
core i5 4460
catalyst beta 14.7